WANdisco awarded £504,000 grant
dinsdag, 15 december 2009
A £504,000 grant awarded to software firm WANdisco will partly fund job-creation plans for its European head office in Sheffield.
The firm moved to South Yorkshire last year. The money is expected to make around 40 high-quality creative and digital jobs available in the city.
Sheffield's economic development company Creativesheffield supported the grant through the Grant for Business Investment (GBI) scheme, which gives businesses capital grants to support sustainable investment in England.
WANdisco chief executive David Richards said: "We relocated from London last year because it was expensive and had poor infrastructure. We chose Sheffield because of its fantastic facilities, high-quality workforce and excellent universities.
"Our original plan was to split our operation between Sheffield and India but we have been so impressed with what Sheffield has to offer and how cost-effective it has been for us that we've decided to make it the sole base for our European headquarters."
Based in the Electric Works building, WANdisco is a leading provider of distributed software development solutions used by Fortune Global 1000 firms such as BT, Dell and Honda.
Its unique replication technology allows teams distributed across the world to work as if they are all at one location.
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